From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 25 10:29:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD1D16A50E for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:29:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0CA13C491 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so2980036uge for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:29:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kegXJS0+Aj9B/PiZjL1QYnWKNNoVpPRjon2fzZ7SZTepAaF4+mjRn9WQsD112WovYMRIuooSs9JfZF4/JovxVP5wosZo01wqNtCqNSN1jo3U25qZfz/HYgJTvvMVW7FN7teTZAa6ASDvoQy9B/p5zvwPR+F2IQbuwCpp7a5BOzw= Received: by 10.78.180.18 with SMTP id c18mr1543065huf.1167040927341; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.167.16 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:02:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:02:07 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "deeptech71@gmail.com" In-Reply-To: <458F4D75.8020703@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <37f72b1f0612241923h5c92e50kdff07783434efbbd@mail.gmail.com> <458F4D75.8020703@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d81dded4c722d799 Cc: chat@freebsd.org, Jim Capozzoli Subject: Re: Gmail idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:29:34 -0000 On 12/25/06, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > Jim Capozzoli wrote: > > I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what > > other people thought about this. What if google set up a mechanism > > where emails are shared between user accounts? Like, suppose this > > email is submitted to chat@freebsd.org, right, and the gmail mail > > server sees who is all getting mail from chat@freebsd.org. Then, it > > has only one copy of the message on the server, and points everybody's > > account who is supposed to have this message to that one copy on the > > server. Despite it seems like they have unlimited space this could > > probably seem useful to them anyway. :-P > > > > Is this a good idea or am I just insane? Btw I can't find the spot in > > google's support area to submit my idea so that's half the reason I > > sent it here incase anybody who works at google also happens to be > > subscribed to chat@. xD > > > > It's a modern network with everything in it. That should already be > implemented somehow. If not directly, then file compression should do > the job. Yes, I'm somehow sure they are already doing it. > If google thinks he's the center of the world, OK, let us all register > for 2GB and fill it with bulk. Man at this rate I wont buy new HDDs, > I'll install my OS onto google and run it from there lol :] They block user accounts for that. You can only use gmail for average email-related workflows, which imply 90% of easily-compressible data. They have plenty of space to store that. http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/06/four-petabytes-in-memory.html